The Architect · Lina · New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Walk it from Brooklyn toward Manhattan at sunrise, before the crowds, and watch the cable geometry frame the skyline. The pointed-arch granite towers are pure Gothic; the steel web spun between them was a genuine engineering leap. Structure and romance in one object.
Roebling's 1883 masterpiece — Gothic stone towers strung with the first steel-wire cables.
— Lina, The Architect
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